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NORTH WEST SOUND ARCHIVE
MARCH 2006 Issue No. 17
OPEN DAY 2006 interest.
North West Sound Archive,
MAY 17TH Old Steward’s Office, The value of oral history
Clitheroe Castle, recording and the importance
N orth West Sound Archive
is holding an Open Day
for people who are interested
Clitheroe,
Lancs. BB7 1AZ
Tel/Fax 01200 427897
that it plays in capturing our
heritage continues to become
more widely recognised and
in establishing, or are e-mail: accepted. In a constantly
involved in, an oral history nwsa@ed.lancscc.gov.uk changing world it allows an
project or are interested in understanding of, and an
any aspect of sound recording insight into, the past.
and/or conservation. The day grants in order to fund new
is open to everyone who is projects.
involved in any way with such
RECIPES & REMINISCENCES
work and would find the day
beneficial.
The Open Day will run from
11.00 am to 4.00 pm on
Wednesday, 17th May 2006
T he Sound Archive has
recently
collection of
received a
recordings
and you are welcome to call in produced by East Lancs Into
There will be the opportunity
at any time during the day. Employment. The recordings
to see the work of the Sound
There will be refreshments principally concentrate on
Archive and meet with
and a light buffet lunch. memories of the kitchen,
members of the North West
cooking and food.
Oral History Network to
exchange ideas. Sound If you wish to attend please
Archive staff will be available either contact the Sound Many memories have been
to give advice and information Archive or return the slip to captured such as “… we used
on suitable equipment, be found on page 3. to have a lot of sheep’s heads.
project planning, recording
My mother used to do them
techniques, cataloguing,
in the oven. The older ones
conservation and any other NWOHN used to get the best part
which was the tongue, you
aspect concerning sound
recording and oral history. T he membership of the
North West Oral History
Network continues to grow.
ripped the tongue out, it was
fairly long and you’d cook it.
Also present throughout the
That was a little bit of a
Members of the Network
day will be an Archivist from
delicacy. You’d get the
include individuals, local
Lancashire Record Office and
sheep’s head on the table and
history societies, museums
staff from Lancashire
push the brains out with your
and other organisations who
Libraries Local Studies Unit
thumb – it was grey and I
are involved in oral history
who will be able to answer
don’t know what it tasted
work in the Sound Archive’s
your questions about their
like!”
catchment area.
work.
The aim of the Network is to
Representatives from the give members the opportunity
Heritage Lottery Fund will to work together towards a
also be attending and will be common cause and to identify
available to give advice and potential interviewees in
information to those who are connection with each
interested in applying for member’s particular area of
“…my Mum did most of her contact names and addresses. ensuring the preservation of
cooking in the fire oven, the the material for posterity.
oven which was fed by the fire
and all her baking was done Last autumn staff from NWSA
in there. All her main cooking visited the Brass Band
– the cooking of meat, Archive which is located in
everything. It was high range Wigan. This excellent archive
so that you could put a pan on is a comprehensive collection
the trivet and coals would of all kinds of brass band
heat it. You would boil your memorabilia including
potatoes and veg in that. musical scores, recordings,
instruments, uniforms,
medals and programmes. The
COW HEEL PIE curator of the Brass Band
½lb cow heels Archive, Walter Ainscough,
½lb stewing beef can be reached on 01942
1 large onion 820526. If you are interested
Salt & pepper in brass bands, this archive is
The Archive also produces a
well worth a visit
Short crust pastry made with booklet entitled Recording
.
½lb plain flour, ¼lb marge, Oral History which is on sale
¼lb lard, 4 tbs water. ORAL HISTORY TRAINING at a cost of £2.50 (including
postage). This booklet
Place cow heels, beef and
chopped onion in pan of water,
T he Sound Archive offers
training in oral history
recording techniques and
contains advice on recording
equipment including how to
season, bring to boil and use minidisk recorders,
methodology as well as advice
simmer for 3 hours. Place in conducting an interview etc.,
on suitable equipment and
oven proof dish and cover with as well as several pages of
Copyright. If you are
pastry. Cook for 45 minutes sample questions. It also
interested in conducting an
gives advice on the legalities
interview(s) – either as an
such as Copyright.
individual or as part of a
From this excellent collection group such as a local history
of recordings the Sound society – and would like to
Archive, in conjunction with know more then do contact us. NEW RECORDINGS
T
E.L.E., will soon be producing There are many people whose he Archive continues to
an illustrated booklet of memories are well worth undertake new recordings
recipes and reminiscences. preserving for future and amongst those recently
generations to listen to. These recorded are: Co-op Wholesale
reminiscences often contain memories, working with the
BRASS BANDS valuable information that can early computers, amateur
T he Archive continues to
record the memories of
those involved in brass bands
not be obtained from any dramatics with the Garrick
other source and it is vital Theatre, Burnley, living in
that these memories are the hutments in Heaton Park,
– both past and present, preserved before they are lost an evacuee who came to
young and old. We now have forever. Burnley, Manchester Blitz
a long list of people to fireman and a lady involved
interview covering both the In addition to giving advice in communism and women’s
well –known large bands and and training in conducting movements during and after
also the smaller, less well- oral history interviews the WW2. If you know of anyone
known bands, many of whom Archive offers a copying who memories should be
are struggling to survive. We service whereby the originals preserved for posterity please
would like to thank all those (or copies) can be preserved contact the Archive.
who have come forward with here at the Archive thus SECURITY COPIES
ne of the vital aspects of the collection of 78rpm and vinyl Almost all of the recordings
O work of the North West Sound
Archive is to take and store
discs from the Co-operative held by NWSA are available
Society Archives for copying for use by the public (a few do
security copies of recordings in
order to preserve their longevity. It
and recordings from an on- have Copyright restrictions
is so easy, when listening to a going project of Woodland applied). We pride ourselves
tape, to get it tangled and Recollections. on being able to find
destroyed in a tape machine. If recordings applicable to every
this tape is the original then that topic requested - it may only
information is lost forever. The
OH RECORDING DAYS be a brief mention if it is a
NWSA offers a copying service of
T he Archive is keen to hold more obscure topic although
original material, storing the
originals or the copies. This further oral history other subjects such as textiles
service is available not only to recording days throughout the would produce a list of
those responsible for large north west. The idea of these several thousand!!
collections of material but also days is to encourage members
anyone with original oral history
of the public to come along The way to access the
sound recordings - for example as
and share their memories by recordings is first to contact
part of a degree course or a local us with the subject. You
history project etc. NWSA would making short recordings. The
not infringe any Copyrights and topics covered can be wide would be sent a computer
Rights - these would remain with ranging from general print-out of suitable
the original holders. memories of a town or village recordings. You can then
to a specific event or time of either visit the Archive by
year. The Sound Archive will appointment to listen to the
NEW COLLECTIONS assist in all ways possible in recordings (for which there is
T he Archive has recently organising such an event and no charge) or borrow cassette
taken in several new will produce posters, handbills copies of the material on a
collections. One of these, the and press releases for one month loan (there is a
Elizabeth Roberts’ collection, distribution. small charge for this service
from The Centre for North to cover costs and postage).
West Regional Studies at One Recording Day held
Lancaster University, was recently in Ramsbottom
recorded in the 1970’s and captured the memories of EARLY DAYS OF COMPUTING
contains many hundreds of
hours of important oral
Grants Tower. If you are
interested in hosting such a O
ver the past half century
computers have changed
almost every aspect of
history material. The master day, please contact the Sound
recordings are being stored at modern day life. Because of
Archive - it is surprising what
the Sound Archive with CD new information can be the importance of computers
copies being produced for use gleaned from recording days.the Archive is keen to record
at the University. Other the memories of those who
collections recently received worked with computers
include the Home Front in ACCESS TO NWSA COLLECTIONS whether in development,
T he Archive’s collections selling or using them. If you
are here to be used! can help in any way please
get in touch with the Archive.
Chorley during WW2, a
NORTH WEST SOUND ARCHIVE – OPEN DAY
I/we would like to attend the North West Sound Archive Open Day on
Wednesday 17th May 2006.
Name/Organisation__________________________________________
Number expecting to attend________________
